Sasso di Castalda, Monte Facito (Permian of Italy)

Also known as Reef 413

Where: Italy (40.5° N, 15.7° E: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 24.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Murgabian (273.0 - 267.0 Ma)

• reworked boulders in the Triassic Monte Facito Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• Tubiphytes-Archaeolithoporella constructions

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Vachard and P. Miconnet. 1989. Une association a fusulinoides du Murghabien superieur au Monte Facito (Apennin meridional, Italy) [An assemblage with Upper Murghabian fusulinoids from Monte Facito (southern Appenine, Italy)]. Revue de Micropaleontologie 32(4):297-318 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75029: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Foraminifera
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
 Tetrataxoidea - Abadehellidae
Abadehella coniformis Okimura and Ishii 1975
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
 Fusulinoidea - Schwagerinidae
Chusenella sp. Hsu 1942
 Fusulinoidea - Boultoniidae
Dunbarula cf. nana Kochansky-Devide and Ramovs 1955
"? Gallowaiina sp." = Gallowayinella Chen 1934
Codonofusiella sp. Dunbar and Skinner 1937
 Fusulinoidea - Neoschwagerinidae
 Fusulinoidea - Verbeekinidae
Verbeekina ex gr. verbeeki Geinitz and Marek 1876
 Fusulinoidea - Schubertellidae
 Archaediscacea - Lasiodiscidae
 Endothyroidea - Bradyinidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Endothyroidea - Endotebidae
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
 Fusulinina - Pachyphloiidae
 Fusulinina - Archaesphaeridae
 Lagenina - Protonodosariidae
 Lagenina -
Pseudolangella fragilis Sellier de Civrieux and Dessauvagie 1965
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosaria longissima Suleimanov 1949
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
 Miliolida - Baisalinidae
 Miliolida - Hemigordiopsidae
Agathammina pusilla Geinitz 1848
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Foraminifera
  - Spiroplectamminidae
Rhodophyceae
 Florideae -
Ungdarella uralica Maslov 1956
  - Solenoporaceae
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Shamovella
  -
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956
Cyanophyceae
  - Aphralysiaceae